Podcast Host: Ken Laster
Podcast Owner: lasterk
Website: http://www.jazzandbeyond.com
Location: US
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From Jazz Masters of past and present to emerging new artists performing jazz, fusion and funk. Ken will always keep things "In the Groove". No smooth jazz here!
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5/19/2013 | Download File (87.98 MB) - right click to download
This podcast features progressive jazz coming from some great New York City based artists. We kick things off with an explosive hit from Orrin Evan’s Captain Black Big Band. From there, we settle into the adventurous sounds of Noah Preminger complete with an interview about his new Palmetto release, Haymaker. Noah is also a contributor [...]
5/12/2013 | Download File (41.78 MB) - right click to download
This podcast concludes with a tribute to Mother’s Day with a moving composition by Sean Jones for Momma. Before we hear that one, Mirislav Vitous plays a meditative piece from a great album of the ’70s. Speaking of that great decade in jazz, Chick Corea, Lenny White and Stanley Clark reunite for the album Forever. [...]
5/5/2013 | Download File (79.12 MB) - right click to download
This podcast celebrates Spring. Spring represents renewal and re-emergence, and so it is with Jimmy Greene’s return to the jazz scene leading his quartet at Smalls jazz club this week. The Spring set also brings to you Freddie Hubbard and Joshua Redman with tunes inspired by this change of season. Also featured on this show [...]
4/28/2013 | Download File (74.79 MB) - right click to download
This podcast was inspired from a recent concert in Hartford with the Earl MacDonald’s New Directions ensemble. Earl is a fine composer and arranger as well as the Jazz director at the University of Connecticut. Featured are some of the compositions and musicians from that show. From that concert, we hear from Earl MacDonald, Lauren [...]
4/21/2013 | Download File (71.59 MB) - right click to download
I just returned from a week in New Orleans. The music here recounts the range of sounds we heard there including brass bands, dixieland, R&B and some of the modern jazz and rock being played in the Big Easy. Most of the tracks heard are from local bands we saw, and from local music that [...]
